Antoni Tàpies i Puig,

【西班牙歷史上的今天 ～ 西班牙藝術家 Antoni Tàpies 于 2012 年二月 6 日去世】
西班牙二十世紀後半最具影響力的藝術家塔畢耶斯（Antoni Tàpies）已離開我們 3 年了。

每次經過塔畢耶斯基金會，我都會想起來，原來，有些藝術家不是離我們很遠，在 2012 年二月 6 日以前，塔畢耶斯跟我一樣，都住在巴塞隆納！

90年代 湖南美術出版過他的藝術實踐和塔皮埃斯回憶錄

Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies [ənˈtɔni ˈtapjəs i puʧ] (born in Barcelona, 13 December 1923) is a Catalan painter. He is one of the most famous European artists of his generation. After studying law for 3 years, he devoted himself from 1943 onwards only to his painting. He is perhaps the best-known Catalan artist to emerge in the period since the Second World War.
In 1950 he held his first solo exhibition, at Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona. In the early 50s he lived in Paris, to where he has often returned. Both in Europe and beyond, the highly influential French critic and curator Michel Tapié (no relation, despite the similar name) enthusiastically promoted the work of Antoni Tàpies.
In 1948, Tàpies helped co-found the first Post-War Movement in Spain known as Dau-al-Set which was connected to the Surrealist and Dadaist Movements. The main leader and founder of Dau-al-Set was the poet Joan Brossa. The movement also had a publication of the same name, Dau-al-Set. Tàpies started as a surrealist painter, his early works were influenced by Paul Klee and Joan Miró; but soon become an informal artist, working in a style known as "pintura matérica", in which non artistic materials are incorporated into the paintings. In 1953 he began working in mixed media; this is considered his most original contribution to art. One of the first to create serious art in this way, he added clay and marble dust to his paint and used waste paper, string, and rags (Grey and Green Painting, Tate Gallery, London, 1957).

Mural at the Catalonian Pavilion at the Seville Expo '92

His international reputation was well established by the end of the 50s. From the late 50s to early 60s, Tàpies worked with Enrique Tábara, Antonio Saura, Manolo Millares and many other Spanish Informalist artists. From about 1970 (influenced by Pop art) he began incorporating more substantial objects into his paintings, such as parts of furniture. Tàpies's ideas have had worldwide influence on art, especially in the realms of painting, sculpture, etchings and lithography. Examples of his work are found in numerous major international collections. His work is associated with both Tachisme and Abstract Expressionism.
Fundació Tàpies, in Barcelona, is a museum dedicated to his life and work. He currently is living in Barcelona and is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York.
On 9 April 2010, Tàpies was raised into the Spanish nobility by King Juan Carlos I with the hereditary title of Marqués de Tàpies^[1] (English: Marquess of Tàpies).

References

1. ^ Real Decreto 433/2010] - Website BOE

Sources

• Antoni Tàpies and Michel Tapié. Antonio Tapies [sic], New York, G. Wittenborn, 1959. OCLC 1090149
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Antoni Tàpies New York [©1962] OCLC: 2272922

External links

• Artist Biography
• The Pace Gallery
• The UNESCO Works of Art Collection
• Artcyclopedia on Antoni Tàpies
• Britannica article